Plant Rescue Schedule
You must be a GNPS member to participate in plant rescues or a member may request that you attend one time as a guest before joining. To become a member, go to the Membership page for instructions. Memberships run from January 1 to December 31.
Plant Rescue Contacts:
Plant Rescue Director: Lynn Almand or 770-886-9526
Deputy Director: Don Schwarz or 770-979-4237
Rescue Coordinator: Sheri George or 770-612-0676
Regional Coordinators
East and South Metropolitan Atlanta: Lynn Almand or 770-886-9526
West and North Metropolitan Atlanta: Sheri George or 770-612-0676
Site Procurement
East and South Metropolitan Atlanta: Andrea Greco or 404-606-3654
West and North Metropolitan Atlanta: Russell Brannon or 678-493-7229
Please help us locate new rescue sites and contact any of the site procurement coordinators, other rescue committee members, or the Webmaster with the contact name and phone number and location information. See the Plant Rescue FAQ for more information.
Note: If you have expressed a desire to be notified by email about rescues and your email address changes, notify Ed McDowell who maintains the listserv for plant rescues.
How to Sign Up for a Rescue:
It's easy! If rescue information is displayed below, pick a rescue that you'd like to attend, click on Sign Up For This Rescue, and fill in the appropriate information. You will receive a response that your request has been sent to the facilitator leading the rescue. The facilitator will contact you in a day or so notifying you whether or not there is room for you on the rescue.
Rescue Schedule:
Sunday, September 12
Paulding County, Cartersville, Richland 9 am
Lead Facilitator: Walter Bland Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Debbie Meadows, Marcia Winchester
Plants: Christmas fern, shuttleworth ginger, cinnamon fern, royal fern, big leaf magnolia, umbrella magnolia, foam flower, galax, pussytoes, musclewood, fly poison, skullcap, yellowroot, low bush blueberry, blackeyed susan, spotted wintergreen, star chickweed.
This site requires a 3/4 mile hike to the rescue area and waterproof boots as there is a stream to cross.
Saturday, September 18
Cherokee County, Canton, The Bluffs 9 am
Lead Facilitator: Debbie Meadows Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Russell Brannon, Sheri George
Plants: Cinnamon fern, green and gold, azaleas, fairy wand, viburnum (nudum and maple leaf), beaked hazelnut, blueberry, pussytoes, spotted wintergreen, hydrangea arborescens, Christmas fern, ginger, birds foot violet, fly poison, New York fern, lady fern, phlox, turtlehead, Catesby's trillium, uvalaria, iris crestata, whorled coreopsis, scutellaria incana, yellowroot, rattlesnake plantain, Solomon's seal, Solomon's plume.
Paulding County, New Georgia, The Georgian 9 am
Lead Facilitator: Fran Forsyth Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Gina Strickland, Mike Strickland
Plants found: Christmas fern, lady fern, resurrection fern, ginger, foam flower, azalea, hepatica, rattlesnake plantain, hearts a-bustin’, rue anemone, indian pink, dwarf crested iris.
Tuesday, September 21
Gwinnett County, Grayson, Callie Still 9am
Lead Facilitator: Keren Lindauer Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Martin Taylor
Plants found: pawpaw, spotted wintergreen, moss, hawthorn, mountain mint, vaccinium, sparkleberry, spiderwort, several kinds of hypericum, red cedar, sassafras, black tupelo, ruellia, monarda (wild bergamot), green & gold, ebony spleenwort, passion flower, rudbeckia, pale Indian plantain, wild geranium, native azalea, flowering spurge, hearts a-bustin’', Christmas fern, maple-leaf viburnum, woodland phlox, aralia spinosa, Carolina silverbell.
Sunday, September 26
Cherokee County, Canton, The Bluffs 9 am
Lead Facilitator: Marcia Winchester Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Ken Gohring, Paul Shivers
Plants: Cinnamon fern, green and gold, azaleas, fairy wand, viburnum (nudum and maple leaf), beaked hazelnut, blueberry, pussytoes, spotted wintergreen, hydrangea arborescens, Christmas fern, ginger, birds foot violet, fly poison, New York fern, lady fern, phlox, turtlehead, Catesby's trillium, uvalaria, iris crestata, whorled coreopsis, scutellaria incana, yellowroot, rattlesnake plantain, Solomon's seal, Solomon's plume.
Thursday, September 30
Fulton County, Fairburn, Butner Rd. 10 am
Lead Facilitator: Ed McDowell Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Susan Todd
Plants found: ferns - Christmas, cinnamon, New York, royal, ebony spleenwort, ginger, hearts a-bustin’', low bush blueberry, native azaleas, spicebush, rattlesnake plantain, rue anemone, Solomon's seal, trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, uvularia, wild geranium, wood anemone, horse balm (collinsonia), and much more.
More information about rescues and the rescue procedures are outlined on the Plant Rescue FAQ.